The torpor-inducing temperatures seem to be cooling down, so it’s a good time to get out and about. Here are some mid-August events worth looking into. Fri-Sun 8/13-8/15 (and through 8/29): High school can be fraught, as so many teen dramedies have taught us. School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy […]
Tag: Chicago Humanities Festival
Posted inCity Life
More comedy, movies, and art, please
Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days
Posted inNews & Politics
Queer folks of color want to cancel today’s Buttigieg-Lightfoot book event
Activists say the pair’s public conversation about “trust and distrust” shows the problems with assuming marginalized people have progressive values.
Posted inArts & Culture
With The Topeka School Ben Lerner comes full circle
Viewing his latest novel as both the prequel to and the conclusion of his novel trilogy helped the celebrated author find a way to write it.
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful
This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
Posted inNews & Politics
Journalist Jim DeRogatis reveals why it took so long for the case against R. Kelly to stick
The evidence against the Chicago superstar was damning, but for almost 20 years, no one was listening. At a Chicago Humanities Festival event, DeRogatis and #MuteRKelly cofounders discuss the systemic apathy that allowed the Kelly to walk free for years.
Posted inMusic
Bodymilk Tapes invites a crowd of queer and trans musicians to Noise Prom II
Bodymilk Tapes invites a crowd of queer and trans musicians to Noise Prom II, the Chicago Humanities Festival hosts a discussion of Jim DeRogatis’s new R. Kelly book, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What’s wrong with putting the rich in charge?
Author Anand Giridharadas on Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Posted inMusic
Third Coast Percussion tackle a Philip Glass commission—and the ‘great composer’ problem
Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion have commissioned the first piece for percussion ensemble by minimalist giant Philip Glass, and it could help them do even more for the diverse emerging voices he sometimes overshadows.
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Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A preview of four talks this weekend
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Former FBI director James Comey headlines Chicago Humanities Fest on his big book tour
The former head G-man will be speaking about his closely guarded memoir in Chicago three days after the book’s release.
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The 2018 Chicago Humanities Festival will focus on graphics and visual art
For the first time, the festival will have the same theme all year long.
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The Strange Foods Chicago Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The VGA Gallery’s new magazine, the South Side Pie Challenge, and more goings-on the weekend of 11/3-11/5
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Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse
The Rolling Stone writer and author of I Can’t Breathe is answering for harassment he and Mark Ames bragged about in their 2000 memoir.